Keith Buddie wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been on the list for a while but this is my first post so
> hopefully it will make sense!
>
> I'm a fairly new user of Ubuntu 7.10 and trying to migrate everything
> over from XP - so far everything is going OK but the next obstacle is
> getting everything backed up. In Windows, I used a program called
> Memeo Autobackup ( http://www.memeo.com/autobackup.htm ) to back
> everything up to my network hard drive; it basically scans folders you
> set for changes and when it sees a file has changed, sends it to the
> network drive.
>
> Admittedly, this was quite resource hungry, esp on my 5 year old
> laptop and I don't actually need immediate backups anyway.
>
> So, I've been playing with Flyback (
> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-snapshot-backups-with-flyback-ubuntu-7.10
> ) but it's not really doing what I want. Firstly, it won't see the
> network drive, but I suspect that is down to my lack of understanding
> of mounting drives etc.
> Aside from that, if I just set it to backup locally as a test it seems
> to create a whole new set of backup folders that seemingly contain all
> the files every time I press backup (presumably the same would happen
> every time the cron job runs) but all I want is a replication of the
> folder structure in my home drive with the latest version of the
> files.
> I don't want the NAS filling up with backups, nor copy Gbs of data
> over a wireless network every time a backup is run!
>
> But I'm probably missing something? When I google for linux backup
> applications, it seems to me that they are all designed to take a copy
> of the whole contents of the folders in question each time. What are
> people's experiences/recommendations for doing backups?
I think rsync and its derivatives respect differences
I have not looked far but rsync is basically command line so may take
a bit of getting used to.
rdiff-backup I used this for a while, but moved to rsync later.
KDE 'keep' promises much but when I tried it - it is based on
rdiff-backup - the time period setting worked hourly regardless of
what Ihad set.
hth
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
